Korbel is
one of the major brandy makers in the US which still maintains total control of
its own wine making, brandy distillation, barrel aging, blending and
bottling.Our own people, in our own
facilities, closely control every step of the brandy making process.

We crush
and ferment only the finest California brandy grapes to make our base
wines.The young wines are then
distilled in a copper lined still to ensure the highest level of purity and
flavor.The fiery heat of the
water-white new distillates is slowly mellowed in one of our 30,000 small,
American oak, barrels.

These
barrels are specially charred during their construction to leave a layer of
natural charcoal in contact with the brandy.This slow barrel aging, in contact with both the oak and the natural
charcoal, gives the brandy its golden color and smooth, elegant flavor.

After
barrel aging, we blend many individual lots of brandy into our solera system at
Korbel Champagne Cellars.The solera
system is never emptied, as brandy is removed for bottling.Instead, new barrel aged brandy is added back
to the tank.This allows us to maintain
a high level of consistency and the ultimate quality in our bottling blends.